Redcoats

Redcoats is the name used by the colonists to derisively refer to the members of the British Army. Also known as "Lobster-Backs", the Redcoats serve as the primary enemy for the majority of the game, and most of the people that Connor Kenway must kill throughout the game are members of the British Armed Forces as well. The Redcoats come in many different enemy types:

Enemy Types

Historical Connection

The British Armed Forces formed in 1707 with the Act of the Union, and were focused primarily on ground-based infantry combat. The soldiers of Britain were highly trained, highly disciplined and armed with the best weapons money could buy, and after their victory over the French in the Seven Years War in 1763, the British Army was considered the most formidable fighting force on the entire planet.

Due to this superior discipline, training and experience, the British Army were incredibly intimidating to the otherwise volunteer force of civilians that made up the Colonial Military, but the arrogance and rigid strategies formed against the French were ultimately a major part of their downfall in the Revolutionary War, as their formations and tactics were ill-suited to deal with the ambushes, traps and guerrilla warfare that the Colonists brought to bear on them.

The war lasted from 1775 to 1783, but the downfall began when the British were finally defeated when the joint Colonist and French forces, numbered in over 18,900 men, laid siege to the settlement of Yorktown, attacking from land at all sides and through naval assaults, gunning down and bombarding many a British soldier to his death. Confronted with the staggering losses, the British General Charles Cornwallis decided to surrender his entire force of over 8000 men on October 19, 1781. This major turning point in the war caused King George the Second to lose the control and faith of Parliament, and no further major land campaigns were put forth, leaving over 30,000 soldiers in the colonies without a war to fight. The peace treaty between Britain and the newly formed America, known as the Treaty of Paris, was signed on September 3, 1783, formally ending the war and forcing the British Army out of the United States. The Treaty of Versailles, signed the next day, was signed by the British to end conflict with the various nations that rallied to the aid of the Colonists (or simply to defeat the British). The british were not deafeted intil many years later